Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 656 pages
- Published by: Jossey-Bass May 24, 1999
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0876282621
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0876282625
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Book Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.1 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Book Description
This comprehensive collection of over 300 intriguing investigations-including demonstrations, labs, and other activities— uses everyday examples to make chemistry concepts easy to understand. It is part of the two-volume PHYSICAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM LIBRARY, which consists of Hands-On Physics Activities With Real-Life Applications and Hands-On Chemistry Activities With Real-Life Applications.
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This comprehensive collection of over 300 intriguing investigations— including demonstrations, labs, and other activities— uses everyday examples to make chemistry concepts easy to understand. It is part of the two-volume
PHYSICAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM LIBRARY, which consists of
Hands-On Physics Activities With Real-Life Applications and
Hands-On Chemistry Activities With Real-Life Applications.
For easy use, all materials are organized into the five units of study listed below with their sections. Each unit offers a variety of lessons designed to provide interaction between students and their world in a way that encourages scientific reasoning.
- MEASUREMENT: Language of Chemistry Units of Measurement Measurement
- MATTER: Atomic Structure The Periodic Law Diffusion and Osmosis Changes of State Classification of Matter
- CHEMICAL AND NUCLEAR REACTIONS: Chemical Bonding Types of Chemical Reactions Oxidation-Reduction (Redox) Reactions Electrochemistry Polymers Nuclear Chemistry
- THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS: Thermochemistry Heat Transfer Chemical Kinetics Chemical Equilibrium
- GASES, LIQUIDS, SOLIDS, AND MIXTURES: Gases Colloids and Suspensions Solutes, Solvents, Solutions Colligative Properties Acids and Bases Acid and Base Reactions Crystal and Crystallization
Each easy-to-follow lesson format contains a concise introduction using common knowledge examples reproducible pages for students a "To the Teacher" information section and a separate listing of additional, specific applications that students can relate to.
More than 450 illustration and 100 tables supplement instruction, add interest, and heighten the learning process.
Also included is a handy appendix in reproducible form that contains valuable tables, lists, information on safety, chemical procurement and preparation, and more. And as a special help, each lesson provides complete answer keys and enough detailed explanations to ensure success for even the inexperienced science teacher.
You'll find
Hands-On Chemistry Activities can be used to supplement any chemistry textbook or as a stand-alone chemistry program in itself. However you use it, these activities will help you inject new vitality into your curriculum!
Reader Reviews
I am using this book as a reference while homeschooling my middle-school son. It is far and away the best book of science experiments and demonstrations at this level that I have encountered. Every possible chemistry topic at the middle and high school level is covered with multiple examples, all well -indexed and clearly explained. Many can be done with simple materials around the house although some require more sophisticated glassware and a few involve chemicals and/or procedures that would require an institutional setting (for example, needing a fume hood). The latter are well indicated. Best of all, the activities are FUN--we did the Cartesian Diver today and it was a blast! My only very minor gripe is that a few activities are repeated several times in slightly different formats. More thorough editing and/or cross-referencing would be helpful. I would recommend the book for homeschoolers such as myself who want to give their students real lab experiences, and also probably for "regular" teachers in middle or high schools.
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